The Lyon Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins (Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles) - Hardcover

Lyon, Stewart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197266029 ISBN 13: 9780197266021

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book records, illustrates, and discusses the context of more than 1,000 coins from the Anglo-Saxon period, assembled by the author during 60 years of scholarly research and deposited by him in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, on lifetime loan. The composition of the collection reflects this research and is therefore particularly strong in the so-called sceattas and stycas of the kingdom of Northumbria, and also in silver pennies of Edward the Elder from the early 10th century, as well as the issues of AEthelred II and Cnut which immediately preceded and followed the former's death in 1016. A textual chapter discusses and points to a resolution of the discrepancy in 9th-century Northumbrian chronology as presented by Norman historians and from analysis of the coinage. A later chapter reviews the evidence of documents, hoards and the analytical study of the surviving coinage for the dates and durations of its periodic renewal in the fifty years after its reform by Edgar c.973.

About this title

About the Author

Stewart Lyon was educated at Liverpool College and Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD). President, British Numismatic Society 1966-70 (currently a Vice-President) and Sanford Saltus gold medallist 1974. An actuary by profession; President of the Institute of Actuaries 1982-84.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0197266029
• ISBN 13: 9780197266021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250